Bill Radke
Host
About
Bill hosts Week In Review.
Before that, he created and hosted the NPR humor show Rewind and hosted the Marketplace Morning Report, covering the day's national/international business news.
He's been a KUOW reporter, news director, and interview host; also, a stand-up comedian and Seattle P-I newspaper columnist.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Will a box of ingredients delivered to your door get you cooking?
Bill Radke talks to Kathleen Flinn , cook and author of "The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry," and Naomi Tomky , food and travel writer, about the...
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Law intended to help homeless students used instead to stack high school sports
Bill Radke speaks with Seatle Times staff reporter Claudia Rowe about her investigation into how football and basketball teams at Seattle Public Schools...
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Would you vote to ban safe injection sites in King County?
Bill Radke speaks with Republican state Representative Morgan Irwin and former police chief Norm Stamper about safe injection sites. An initiative may...
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Week in Review: Body cameras, E-DUIs, bike share (again)
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray rejects a call for him to resign after a Seattle Times report that an Oregon child-welfare investigator concluded Murray had...
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Is single payer the future of health care in America?
Bill Radke speaks with Vox.com senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff about single payer health care. Kliff explains the political and practical...
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Feeling a little crowded on the hiking trail?
Bill Radke speaks with Fitz Cahall, host of the podcast The Dirtbag Dairies , and Jill Simmons, executive director of the Washington Trails Association ...
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The two sides of Seattle Police's contentious contract negotiations
Bill Radke talks to Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess and president of the Seattle Police Union Kevin Stuckey about how contract negotiations are...
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What it's like to perform surgery on a 450-pound gorilla
Vip the gorilla needed emergency hernia surgery. Dr. Andrew S. Wright explains his process, from inspecting Vip in the smelly gorilla enclosure to...
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The Record: Wednesday, July 19, Full Show
As Seattle tries to improve its police department, who is getting mistreated? The officers union says the city is steam rolling the union bargaining...
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Should Amazon's Echo be able to call the police?
Bill Radke speaks with WIRED senior writer Emily Dreyfuss about her article that asks the question if Amazon's Echo should be able to call the police...